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by stickfigure 2608 days ago
Golang, at least in its current incarnation, has no chance of replacing Java in its core use case - business processing. Golang is replacing infrastructure that used to be written in C, which makes sense considering that's what it was designed for.

It's weird that you put Spring and react/angular/vue in the same sentence, because there is no overlap in these problem domains.
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djvu9 2607 days ago
Just take a look around to check out new enterprise MIS projects being implemented with a simple golang backend + reactjs etc frontend. The adoption of intereactive/responsive and single page web UI, and the more iterative development practices are certainly driving to a different direction compared to Spring (and RoR etc). I think the main force is from the frontend tech here and that is why you see them in the same sentence.
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xorcist 2607 days ago
Perhaps Golang was designed to replace C, but from what I've seen that doesn't seem to be happening. Most converts seems to come from the other direction, from Python and server side Javascript.

There is a clear trend there to grow static features, and I think a lot of people ask themselves why they shouldn't go directly to a more traditionally compiled language then.

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